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Monday, May 27, 2013

No. 721: Successful development of the basic technology to develop a semiconductor to detect murrain (May 28, 2013)

Technology:

Renesas Electronics developed the basic technology for the development of a
semiconductor to detect murrain. A small chip loaded with senor is put on the
back of a cow, and it transmits the motion abnormality and temperature analysis
of the cow wirelessly. It is expected to be helpful for early detection of foot-and-mouth
disease and bird flu. The company plans to conduct substantiative experiment
with universities and IT-companies and put the chip on the market in 2014.

The
developed chip is one centimeter square, and it loaded with a microprocessor that
converts the data coming from the senor to frequency for analysis. It detects
the abnormality of such parts as body inclination and fever heat with reference
to several hundred frequencies and wave patterns it stored beforehand. Communication
load is reduced by providing the chip with the analysis function and transmitting
a large amount of data the chip obtained to the host computer. At present, visual
observation is widespread to detect a diseased livestock, but observation of
each cow with the help of this new chip will prevent the disease from spreading
fast. Renesas Electronics plans to develop a system to support large-scale livestock
farmers jointly with IT-companies.